Shakespeare
These are the three genres/categories in which Shakespeare wrote.
What are Comedies (Romances), Tragedies and Histories?
This extremely rigid approach to plays was a means of returning BACK to a more traditional form of Theatre in Italy such as occurred in Ancient Rome.
What is Neoclassicism?
This indoor sporting venue was where theatre was performed in the short term while larger public theatres were being built.
What are tennis courts?
Romanticism started in this Western European country centuries before it instigated two world wars.
What is Germany?
"Melo" translates to what term that was always present in Melodrama.
What is music?
Magical creatures most often speak in this type of verse in Shakespeare's plays.
What is Rhymed verse?
This was the term for the appearance of truth.
What is Verisimilitude?
Women were allowed to play all types of roles during English Restoration period except older comic women and these wicked roles.
What are witches?
This Edvard Munch painting was a great influence on Expressionism long before its title started a meta-horror film franchise in the 1990's.
What is the Scream?
When the hero/heroine always wins in the end, it exemplifies the this trait in classic melodrama _______ vs. ________?
What is good vs. evil?
Lower-class characters or clowns such as the Mechanicals in A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM speak in this type of written dialogue.
What is Prose?
In traditional Commedia d'ell Arte, this was only group of stock characters who did not wear masks.
Who are the Lovers?
Name a characteristic, trait, or tendency commonly found among characters in Restoration plays.
What is witty banter and verbal exchanges, sexual conquests, marriages of convenience, old woman pretending to be young, older men marrying younger wives?
These are character names you might find in an Expressionistic play.
What is Mother, Son, Teacher, Student, Old Man or other roles not actual names of people?
This play adapted from a Harriet Beecher Stowe novel was the longest-running melodrama from 1852 to 1918.
What is UNCLE TOM'S CABIN?
This is the number of stressed and unstressed syllables found in Iambic Pentameter.
What is 5 stressed and 5 unstressed syllables?
This was the name of the acrobatic stock character servant, who was always hungry and carried a literal slapstick.
Who is Arlecchino? (Later became Harlequin)
This is the style of comedy that we studied during English Restoration plays such as William Wycherly's THE COUNTRY WIFE or (much later) Oscar Wilde's THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST.
What is Comedy of Manners?
These traits best describe characteristics of German Expressionism that we later saw in films like Citizen Kane, Clockwork Orange, Nightmare Before Christmas and Edward Scissorhands.
What is Nightmarish, distorted pictures, no time and space, themes more important than plot and special film effects like dissolves, cuts, and fades?
Name two types of characters often found in Melodrama.
What is damsel in distress, faithful dog, evil villain, hero, or helpless child?
This type of speech used in Shakespeare is another name for Iambic Pentameter.
What is Blank Verse?
This was the Italianate Staging feature whereby objects receded to a vanishing point making the entire stage look more vast that it really was.
What is Single Point (or linear) Perspective?
This is the name of the popular controversial French play that did not adhere to the strict guidelines of Neoclassicism, because it tried to do things like adapt a tragedy into a happy ending and squeeze a war into one day.
What is Le Cid?
Name three types of Common Interests for the Romantics.
What is Rebellion, Art, Nature, Anti-industrialism, or Uniqueness?
Name a modern type of entertainment genre still found in television and movies for which Melodrama was a forerunner.
What are soap operas, westerns, horror or science fiction?